Presentation of Course Objectives and Contents

The course is focused on the study of international governance organizations and the relations of power and authority in the new spheres of global governance.

In the first part of the course, we will explore the theoretical aspects of Governance and International Organizations, as well as the global transformations of authority and power.

In the second part, we will analyze the new architecture of international governance organizations: delegation, modeling of self-regulatory forms of governance, and the diffusion of new frameworks and new organizations. Sections II and III of the course syllabus.

The third part of the course is focused on the study of ideas, initiatives, and modes of operation of international governance organizations and their interdependence with the new global governance system. Sections IV, V, and VI of the course syllabus.

Methodology

  • Review of the contents of the syllabus for the course on International Governance Organizations (IGO).
  • Presentation of pedagogical material: set of graphics on International Governance Organizations (IGO): consultation and research guide; individual or group work.
  • Provision of a general course bibliography

I Theoretical Framework

  • Fundamental Issues in the Theory of International Organizations (IO)
  • Conceptual Definition of New International Governance Organizations (IGO)
  • IO and IGO: Theoretical Approach
  • Instrumentalization and Diffusion of Power, Authority, and Delegation in International Governance Organizations

II General Introduction

  • History of International Organizations: From the Early 19th Century to the Late 20th Century: A Global Overview of the Evolution of International Organizations
  • Typology of International Organizations: State/UN and Non-State Actors/Private Sector and Civil Society
  • Policy Making and Decision Making: International Organizations/UN/State
  • Old and New Frameworks of State-UN and State-UN-Governance Relations
  • IO, Nation-State, and Governance: Sovereignty and Authority Policies of the UN System and the Governance System

Contemporary Dynamics of Delegation and Diffusion of Power and Authority: From the State and the UN to International Organizations; From the UN and International Organizations to the New Governance System: Government-Business-Civil Society + Stakeholders + IGO + G20-Business20, G7-Business7

Governance Frameworks for Development: Development Effectiveness/Effective Development Cooperation Policies: “Development Effectiveness” and the New Development Financing System: “Financing for Development” (FfD): New Roles of the Private and Public Sectors: Interventions of Private Actors in Development Governance, Aid, and Cooperation at the Global Level

III Architecture of New International Governance Organizations

  • Emergence of International Governance Organizations in the 21st Century
  • Typology of International Governance Organizations: State/UN and Private Sector/Business and Civil Society
  • Political Foundations of New International Governance Organizations: Rhetorics, Agendas, Actors…
  • Growth Dynamics of International Governance Organizations at the Global Level
  • International Governance Organizations and the Network System

Transnationalization of National Public Goods: According to this new governance premise, the management of national public goods concerns not only the State and IOs; public goods are the responsibility of all.

Interdependence Between International Governance Organizations and Global Public Goods:

  • Implications for the Relations Between International Governance Organizations, GPGs, and B4D (Business for Development)
  • IGO and GPGs: Providers and Operators of Services and Financing
  • IGO and GPGs: Seeking Legitimacy as Global Actors of GPGs
  • IGO and GPGs and the Notion of Public and Private Authority
  • IGO, GPGs, and TNCs; IGO, GPGs, and the Notion of Sovereignty, Territory, and Rights
  • IGO, GPGs, and Global Partnership: Development Plans, Regulatory Frameworks…

Capacity Development of Old and New International Organizations Through the New Governance System and International Relations

IV Nexus Between Public and Corporate Rhetorics and New Governance Structures

  • Nexus Between Major UN Agendas/Frameworks and Global Initiatives of International Governance Organizations:
  • IGO and Global Agenda: United Nations Millennium Declaration, New York, 2000
  • IGO and Global Agenda: UN MDGs: United Nations Millennium Development Goals, 2000-2015, New York: 8 Major Global Goals
  • IGO and Global Agenda: UN SDGs: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, 2030, New York: 17 Major Global Goals
  • IGO and Global Summits of the Private Sector: Governance Agendas
  • IGO and Global Partnership: Business and Development: Alliance with the Private Sector
  • IGO and Diffusion of the Notion of Business and Human Rights for TNCs
  • IGO and Self-Governance: The System of Self-Regulations: Principles and Voluntary Norms, CSR
  • IGO and Authority: New Forms of Private Authority in International Relations
  • IGO and Globalization: The Rhetoric of Global Interdependence Relations
  • IGO and Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Human Rights: Paris Agreement, 2015
  • IGO and Transnational Corporations: Poverty Agenda, Rights…

V International Governance Organizations, Multi-Stakeholder System, and Decision Making

  • Multi-Stakeholder Governance: The State of the Question!
  • Decision Making and Multi-Stakeholder Governance
  • IGO, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, and Subnational and Territorial Governance: Between Sovereignty and Governance
  • IGO, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, and the Progressive Transformation of Public and Private Regulatory Systems

IGO: Modeling of Self-Governance Regulatory Entities and the Expansion of the Idea of Voluntary Principles, Reporting, Standards, Responsibility, Transparency, Anti-Corruption, Accountability, and Their Relation with the Multi-Stakeholder System/Parties

IGO, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, and Policy Makers, Law Makers, and Rule Makers

IGO, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, and New Development Orientations: New and Old Entities: Repositioning, Diffusion, and Progressive Conversion to the New Rhetorics of Partnership for Development, Business for Development, Financing for Development, and Development Effectiveness

  • IGO, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, Private Sector, and Public Sector: Interdependence Relations
  • IGO and the Parties in Global Governance Policies
  • IGO and Multi-Stakeholder Governance: Legitimization in the Public and Private Sectors
  • VI International Governance Organizations: Initiatives, Modes of Operation, and Interdependence with the Global Governance System: Global Spheres of Public and Private Intervention:
  • IGO and Water
  • IGO and Energy
  • IGO and Health
  • IGO and Education
  • IGO and Oceans
  • IGO and Natural Resources/Extractive Industry
  • IGO and Infrastructure
  • IGO and Climate Change
  • IGO and Environment
  • IGO and Sustainable Development
  • IGO and Internet…

Global Self-Regulation System of Governance: IGO and Voluntary Principles; IGO and Norms; IGO and Reporting; IGO and Corporate Social Responsibility; IGO and Transparency; IGO and Anti-Corruption; IGO and Justice; IGO and Rights…

Global Business Councils: Transnational Networks of Business Leaders and TNCs; Corporate Networks; UN Networks, Business, and IGO

Private and Corporate Sector Foundations: TNC Foundations; Foundations of the New Global Philanthropy; Corporate Foundations; “Family Global Business” Foundations; Global Foundations of International Political Spheres; Foundations of Former Country Presidents; Foundations of UN System Personalities (Former Officials, Secretary-General…); Foundations of International Art and Culture Spheres…

  • Hybrid Entities of Public-Private Partnership and Governance
  • Intergovernmental, Non-State, International Entities
  • Hybrid Entities of Multi-Stakeholder Governance

Entities for the Production and Diffusion of Public and Private Global Governance Policies; Production and Diffusion of Global Public and Private Regulatory Frameworks; Diffusion of International Policies and Laws

Conclusions

International Governance Organizations and the Political Arena of Global Governance

International Governance Organizations: New Roles? New Paradigm?

Basic Bibliography

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Complementary Bibliography

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